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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that the incident with the math teacher, if it is true (no, I'm not calling your child a liar), is unacceptable, and it does not make sense that the school didn't inform you of the teacher change until days after the fact.  However, the bathroom accident, though unfortunate, was just handled poorly after it happened.  It is very common that specials teachers do not allow students to use the bathroom as they only see kids once per week.  When I was teaching first grade, students had specific times they were allowed to leave my room to go to the bathroom unless it was an emergency or they had a medical reason to need to go so frequently.

Also, as far as the media aide, I kind of don't blame her.  Your son had no business during the media center, which is a structred time, removing his socks and throwing them in the air. He may be six, but there are rules at school.[/quote]

First of all, saying if the incident is true, is calling my son liar. My son is not one to make up stories. Second of all, outside of preschool, my children have never had teachers that had scheduled bathroom breaks. The children were allowed to go to the bathroom after raising their hand and asking to go. Not all children have to go to the bathroom at the same time of day.

To say that it is okay for any kind of staff member to throw away a child's personal property is ridiculous. If you believe that, you shouldn't be a teacher. The appropriate thing to do would have been to take his socks and make him put them back on. Yes, my child is ONLY 6 and when he gets bored he fidgits. We did talk about how removing socks was not appropriate and he needs to follow school rules. He is obviously not the only one who is still figuring out all the school rules in the first month of school. Since you claim you were a teacher, you should know it takes at least a month for the students to get acclimated to a new year of school, new classroom and new classmates. However, staff and teachers have known the rules for many years and should not have handled the situations the way they were handled.[/quote]

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